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...Research got its name from its first location: a store front at the corner of Bow Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. On the staff, in addition to Slack and Schwitzgebel, were Stanley Dubinsky, a social work student; David Kantor, a Harvard sociologist; and Father Jaun Cortes, a Jesuit priest and Clinical psychologist...
Political parties: 1. Voters: 76%. Little comprehension of self-government. President Fulbert Youlou, a high-living priest and close ally of Katanga's Tshombe, tolerates no opposition; is friendly...
Angel's Talent. Agee met Father Flye at St. Andrew's School near Sewanee, Tenn., where the young Rufus (as Agee was then called) went shortly after the death of his own father. To the teacher-priest, Rufus seemed a sort of wonderful, shy, gifted hillbilly. For once the priestly vocation and the artist's vocation-often hostile in direction-met in understanding. Few sons have written to their natural fathers as James Agee wrote to Father Flye. Such trust, love and the confidence in being understood seldom surmount the walls of consanguinity. The letters are also...
...Roman Catholic priest march around his monster, nearly drowning it in holy water, and assure the parents that the Blessed Virgin "will make it all right." He has a kindly old grandmother come on stage in the middle of an indecent episode between mother and child and screech at the top of her lungs: "My grandson is better because it has two heads, my grandson is better because it has two heads," and so forth. Finally, he gives us a huge funeral procession, in which the child's corpse is paraded around in an American flag...
Roman Catholics have had an American priest in Moscow off and on for several years, but at no time since the U.S. recognized the Soviet Union in 1933 has there been a permanent Protestant pastor to minister to the tiny (now 280) American colony in Russia's capital. Believers among the Protestant diplomats and journalists have had to be satisfied with the lay readings once a week at the British embassy, or await the monthly arrival of an Anglican priest from nearby Helsinki...